Mark Zuckerberg Says He’s Living in The Future. That’s The Whole Problem.

Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh
12 min readMar 14, 2022
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At a staff meeting last month, Mark Zuckerberg reportedly unveiled the newly updated Company Values for The Company Formerly Known As Facebook.

You can read all about the values for yourself here, along with “what it’s like working at Meta and what makes us different from other companies.” TL;DR:

Move Fast.

Focus on Long-Term Impact.

Build Awesome Things.

Live in the Future.

Be Direct and Respect Your Colleagues.

Meta, Metamates, Me.

Some of this is laughable on its face — Metamates? Seriously now? — but a lot of it can be fully understood only in the context of the stated values this new set replaces — and what it keeps.

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Jumana Abu-Ghazaleh

Founder @ Pivot For Humanity. Published in Fast Company, OneZero, IEEE Technology + Society. Board member. Palestinian. Start with empathy, always.